Michael Bumann
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Michael Bumann

Michael started web development in 1998. On a long journey from Perl to PHP, passing by Java, he finally found Ruby in early 2005. He's been in love with Ruby and Rails ever since, has built one of the first and biggest German Ruby on Rails applications and released several plugins and snippets.

Jan Kus
Jan's State

Jan Kus

Web developer and graduate student from Cologne, Germany. Computer freak since 1982, in love with web technologies since 2002. His studies in Media and Computer Science at Cologne University of Applied Sciences broadened his mind and set his view on managing projects and applying digital media in the real world. He's always on the road with his cell phone using it 24 hours a day. In private, he's an ambitious artist, winter sports fan, a happy Mac user and loves to enjoy sunshine at the river Rhine. Read more about Jan on his private homepage.

Tim Schneider
Tim's State

Tim Schneider

Tim and his Mac live in Cologne, Germany. He's a freelance web developer, conceptual thinker, and student in the Masters program Media and Computer Science at Cologne University of Applied Sciences.
He speaks German, English, Ruby and Rails and has a long experience in planning and managing software development projects, usability engineering and web development. You may meet him at various conferences searching for inspiration.